Pioneer VSX-415-S/-K, VSX-515-S/-K operating instructions Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

Checking what’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Operating range of remote control unit . . . . . . 6 Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

02 5 minute guide

Introduction to home theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Listening to Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the Quick Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

03 Quick surround sound setup

Automatically setting up for surround

sound (MCACC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Other problems during Auto MCACC . . . . . 14

04 Connecting up

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Digital audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting a DVD player and TV . . . . . . . . . 16

Connecting the multichannel analog

outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting a satellite receiver or other

digital set-top box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting other audio components . . . . . . 18 About the WMA9 Pro decoder . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting other video components . . . . . . 19 Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 FM wire antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 AM loop antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Using external antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting the speakers (VSX-415) . . . . . . . 21 Connecting the speakers (VSX-515) . . . . . . . 22 Speaker terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Hints on speaker placement. . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Speaker placement diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 23

05 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 VSX-515 model: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 VSX-415 model: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

06 Listening to your system

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using the Advanced surround effects . . . . 32 Listening in stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . 34 Choosing the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using the surround back channel

(Extended mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the Virtual Surround Back

mode (VSB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Using Midnight and Loudness listening . . . . 38 Enhancing dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Using the tone controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Playing other sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Selecting the multichannel analog inputs . . . 39 Using the sleep timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

07 Setting up the receiver

Choosing your receiver setup . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Surround and sound setup options . . . . . . . . 41 Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Subwoofer setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Crossover frequency setting . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 LFE attenuator setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Front speaker distance setting . . . . . . . . . . 42 Center speaker distance setting . . . . . . . . . 42 Surround speaker distance setting . . . . . . . 42 Subwoofer distance setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Dynamic range control setting . . . . . . . . . . 42 Dual mono setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Digital input settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting separate channel levels for

listening modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

08 The System Setup menu

Making receiver settings from the System Setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Manual MCACC speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Fine Channel Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Fine Channel Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Acoustic Calibration EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Manual speaker setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Speaker setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Crossover network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Channel level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Speaker Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 The Input Assign menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The Other setup menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Dynamic Range Control Setup . . . . . . . . . . 51 Dual Mono Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 LFE Attenuator Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

09 Using the tuner

Listening to the radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Improving FM stereo sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Naming station presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 An introduction to RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Displaying RDS information . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Searching for RDS programs . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using EON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Clearing all stations from the RDS and

EON searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56